The Rapid Response Squad (RRS) is an arm of the Lagos State Police Command. It was set up to speedily respond to emergencies within the state. It carries out regular patrols of the state and have various 'pinning-down' points across the city. The RRS responds to distress calls made to 767 and 112.

Sunday, 23 October 2016

The operatives of Rapid
Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command have apprehended a tricycle
operator, popularly called, "Keke Marwa", for allegedly abducting a
15-year old girl and turning her to a sex slave.

The suspect, Dada Azeez,
28, had abducted Ibukun (not real name) on October 5 while on errand for her
aunt in Agege area before the RRS operatives rescued her on October 21, 2016,
from his den in the same Agege area of the state.

The alleged abduction of
the girl was disclosed by her sister, Mrs Gbemisola, who disclosed that the
girl was abducted with a sum of N58,000:00 meant forher thrift contribution.

The suspect, after weeks
of lodging in several locations to evade arrest, was eventually nabbed by the
operatives at his residence at 7, Oseni Street, Danjuma Cinema area, Agege, with
the girl in his one room apartment.

Confessing to the crime,
the suspect disclosed that he wooed the girl when she was 14 years old at her
sister' shop in Agege.

"We started having
secret affair about a year ago. But her sister frowned at our relationship when
she got to knows.... Unknown to her, we were still seeing each other. In order to be having regular
conversation with her, I bought a mobile phone for her and instructed her to
hide it from her sister. So, whenever she intended coming to meet me, she would
call and I will describe our meeting point for her," he claimed.

He added "then I
thought if she could elope with me that would be better for us. I started
working on her psyche and deceiving her with some material things.... I was able to
perpetrate the crime when her sister sent her on errand on one Sunday
afternoon. However, I didn't know she was with such amount of money. I just
wanted to take her far away from her guardian for not supporting our
relationship."

Narrating her ordeal,
Ibukun noted that the suspect forcefully deflowered her, adding that, he turned
her to a sex slave. According to her,"he forced himself on me the very first day I visited him at his residence. Ever
since, he has been having sex with me without wearing condom.... He slept with me
anywhere and even at his friends' place where he hid me for weeks. I succumbed
to him because I couldn’t go back home."

She said that the suspect
collected the N58,000:00 her sister gave her. "He fed me thrice a day
probably from that thrift contribution money," she added. The victim, who looked
pale when she was rescued, said that, she eloped with him out of ignorance.

Also arrested along with
him, was one of his friends, Wasiu Agunbiade, who aided the abduction by
accommodating the suspect and the teenager in his one-room apartment in Agege. He said that he only accommodated
them for a night, adding that he never knew he abducted the little girl.

"If I had known the
girl was abducted, I would have advised him to return her to her parents. I
never believed he could commit such crime. He begged me to accommodate them for
one night with her in my room," he stressed. “He left my place the following day
to somewhere else. I regretted allowing them to pass the night in my
place," he added.

In her reaction,
the sister of the abducted girl, who was so elated upon seeing her niece, said
that the family would take her to the hospital for medical check-up.

While confirming the
incident, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Superintendent of
Police, SP. Dolapo Badmus, warned parents and guardians against exposing their
wards and children to social vices around their environment.

The suspect, friend and
the abducted girl have been transferred to the Divisional Police Station in
Agege where the case was initially reported before RRS operatives took it up
and rescued the girl.